Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, a city in northern Ukraine that was evacuated and abandoned after the ...

On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl power plant experienced a sudden power surge, which led to a series of explosions. The ensuing fire and release of radioactive materials resulted in ...

In the aftermath, Pripyat was evacuated just a day after the explosion, turning it into a ghost town almost instantly. This tragic history remains palpable in the stillness of the streets, where ...

On February 14, a Russian drone hit the structure, which is called the New Safe Confinement, or NSC, because it is meant to ...

The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...

Chilling snaps reveal a massive hole cut into the Chernobyl power plant after an alleged Russian strike rocked the site. President Zelensky accused Russia, stating: "A Russian strike drone with a ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, Ukraine (AP) — A drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant early Friday, punching a hole in the structure ...

Parts of the country are still recovering from the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, where a reactor melted down in 1986 in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Memories of radiation in Europe after the 1986 accident provide a stark lesson for those supporting nuclear power in Australia ...

It said that the next step will be analysis of the damage to the arch-shaped New Safe Confinement. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant operators say that the drone caused a 15 square metre hole in the ...

Governments across Southeast Asia are eyeing nuclear energy to fuel rapid growth while also meeting ambitious climate goals.

In a remote forest, a few kilometres from the Chernobyl power plant, the huge Duga-2 radar tower stands as relic of Soviet mismanagement. Video by Adrian Hartrick and Dominika Ozynska Follow BBC ...